Design Brain Warm Ups! - This video link, PPT & activity pack contains several lessons worth of Design Technology lesson starter activities for students to do each lesson to get their heads into a designing mood, while at the same time encouraging students to improve their design capabilities, knowledge and interest in a quick burst of activity. The video can act as an introduction lesson to getting your brain into a design frame of mind when first starting DT with your students. Suitable for KS1, KS2, KS3 and even teacher training inset.
What the pack includes:
• Link to a video on YouTube made by Happy DTing! - “Design Brain Warm Ups!”
• Design Brain Warm Ups! - Explained, the idea behind warming up your design brain.
• Quick Design Challenge Ideas Explained, an explanation of what to do and a practice question to start with.
• Quick Design Challenge Ideas - A list of ideas of things to design.
• What is it? Example Question - Look at the picture and have a guess at what you think it is. Answers are on the next page.
• What is it? Explained - An explanation of the benefits of doing these sort of questions, along with the answers to the previous page.
• What is it? - 4 more questions to ask students, look at the pictures and have a guess.
• What is it? Answers for the previous page in brief.
• What is it? Answers in Detail - Continued from the previous page.
• Design Play - A design question that encourages sharing ideas.
Plus a PPT to accompany the activity pack.